Flavored Salt Trio

Whip up a batch of these gourmet salts to keep on hand for last-minute gift giving. MORE+LESS-

ByMark Evitt

September 30, 2012

Ingredients

3

cups kosher (coarse) salt

1

tablespoon grated lemon peel

2

tablespoons fresh lemon juice

1/4

cup finely chopped fresh rosemary leaves

4

vanilla beans

Steps

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1

Heat oven to 200ºF. In small bowl, place 1 cup of the salt. Mix lemon peel and juice; pour over salt and toss to coat. Spread salt on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 1 hour.

2

Meanwhile, in second small bowl, toss 1 cup salt with the rosemary until well blended.

3

Cut vanilla beans in half lengthwise; scrape out seeds. Discard beans. In third small bowl, place remaining 1 cup salt; add vanilla seeds, rubbing seeds and salt together between fingers so no clumps of seeds remain.

Expert Tips

To package the salts for gifts, find small (about 2-ounce) resealable jars or containers—1 cup of salt will fill 4 containers. For decoration, add a piece of baked lemon peel to the jar of lemon salt; a small rosemary sprig to the rosemary salt; and a piece of scraped vanilla bean to the vanilla salt.

There are lots of other flavor possibilities…how about garlic or lavender?